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Blizzard inflicts financial damage on airlines

Old Man Winter acted on Tuesday and Wednesday to cancel mass
amounts of flights and damage profits for airlines that suffered
the most,
Reuters reports
.

The blizzard caused as many as 5,500 flight cancellations on both
days as Chicago, an air travel hub, was set to take on its largest
amount of snow in more than four decades. A website that tracks
flights said cancellations were ordered for an estimated 5,602
Wednesday flights, 18 percent of those scheduled.

"This has really been a major shutdown. I haven't seen one this
large in many years, and I've been doing this for 42," Terry
Trippler, owner of travel website Airlinerulestoknow.com, told the
wire service. "Other than September 11, I haven't seen it shut down
to this degree at all,"

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